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Friday, February 28, 2014

Yippie! It is finally Release Day Blog Hop at Waltzing mouse stamps and the new stamps and dies; the Gift Card It Stamp Set and Gift Card It die set, that we've been showing you previews of over the last few days are finally available in the shop!!! Did you also see that Claire is releasing dies to go with the funky florals! I've been asking for that so I'm going to be the first one to order it tonight (-:

The cute Bunny is from one of my favorite WMs sets; Half Pint Heroines.

To celebrate, we have a blog hop where the WMS dt's will show even more samples of what you can make with these wonderful stamps and dies and if you comment along the way you can win a stamp set of your choice - you have till at one minute to midnight GMT time (6,59 EST)

+ I know you'll be super inspired. So let's get started. You should have arrived to my blog from Jen Cuthbertson's blog. (If not, you can always start the blog waltz hop over at Claire's blog.)

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Welcome to the third day of Waltzing Mouse Stamps February release previews.

Today we are showing more samples using WMS new dies and stamps : This border is so perfect to frame any sentiment or image, summer or winter, masculine or feminine, CAS or not! I know this great versatile stamp will be inked up a LOT here (-:

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Welcome to the second day of Waltzing Mouse Stamps February release previews.

Today we are showing samples

featuring the Gift Card It stamps with the Gift Card It Envelope die.

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Note: This is a different and slightly larger envelope die than Claire recently released on her blog.

It is perfect for greating little ensambles like this:

or sets of giftcards or calling cards with matching envelopes. These were so fast I will never worry about not having tome to make a little card to go with a present or some flowers. Also I just LOVE that I got to use these sweet Prima papers that have been sitting on my shelf since I bought them. They are ADORABLE but I've never known what to do with them - till now. Don't you think this is the most adorable little card set? And so simple and super fast to make! I'm in LOVE with these new WMS dies!!!

Gift Card It Stamp Set and Gift Card It die set and Gift card envelope dieNow make sure you pop over to see what the other WMS ladies have created with these three new sets:

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Welcome to the first day of Waltzing Mouse Stamps February release previews.

I am so excited beacause today we are showing samples made with some stamps and dies I've dreamt of having; Stamps and dies to create personal giftcards! I used to print my own version for my DH - but oh how boring they now look in comparison to these!!!

Gift Card It Stamp Set and Gift Card It die set

For the stripes on my giftcard I used WMS wonderful striped bg stamp!

Now make sure you pop over to see what the other WMS ladies have created with this new set:

Didn't have much time for painting this week-end so what I'm sharing today is more of a sketch than a painting. I worked from a reference photo (posting it from my other computer later this evening) and tried to get the colors right at least.

Hi!
It is Sunday again, and I'm here to tell you about the new challenge at SPARKS (Paper Smooches). This time it's a designer drafts challenge and here's my sample;

For my card I used stamps from these wonderful Paper Smooches stamp sets; Chubby Chums, We totally click and Notebook basic die.
Be sure to check out what my super talented teamies have created for this challenge;

Today I'm here to share a sympathy card I'm showing off at Waltzing Mouse Stamp's inspiration blog; TEAM TALK. These cards are often hard to make but I Think the simpler you make them the better. Here's a very CAS sample.

I used cream cardstock and stamped the twig from the wonderful set; Two Step floral sprig in Hero Arts Field Green ink. The sentiment is from a favorite sentiment set of mine; Big Day Today. And then simply stitched around the edges Before adhering it to my cardbase with foam adhesive.

This year, for practice, I will allow myself to copy other artists' painting. It's always been a no-no to me to copy, but think it is a great way to try to pick up on the techniques they are using - and promise I won't do it after this year is over. This painting was inspired by one of James Mann's beautiful paintings.

Hope you are doing well! I myself am so extremely proud to be Swedish these Olympic days (-:!
Hugs, Karin

Thursday, February 13, 2014

I promised myself that this year would be a year of practicing watercolorpainting in order to get back to where I was, technique wise, 10 years ago. And today I am showing my second try at this beautiful balerina - drawing and painting figures is way out of my comfortzone so please take it for what it is - practice...

Off to paint some more and to watch the olympics - I just LOVE winterbreak!

Monday, February 10, 2014

I know, it's been two weeks since my last Sunday Watercolor post, but the weeks just fly by. This week though we teachers in southern Sweden are on winterbreak - YIPPIE - so I actually got an hour to myself when M took Ted skating. Took out my paints and made this quick sketch. Keeping my fingers crossed for more good skating weather this week (-:

I used this picture as inspiration;

Hope you are all enjoying this week too wherever you are (-:, hugs, Karin

Here is another card for the Birthday Challenge at Hero
Arts!!! It is for the floral
category. For the background I used thewoodblock newspaper bg stamp and the lotus flower bg clingstamp - and the leaves are from the Christmas Ornaments set.